146K unaccompanied migrant minors located in US under Trump: DHS

(NewsNation) — Nearly 146,000 unaccompanied migrant minors who were, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), part of 450,000 kids illegally smuggled across the U.S-Mexico border during the Biden administration have been located since President Trump took office, officials announced Thursday.

Although almost 300,000 minors smuggled across the border remain unaccounted for, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin praised a joint effort between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for finding the migrant minors. Mullin also pledged to find those responsible for the human smuggling rings and bring them to justice.

In many cases, those children were abused, assaulted and exploited during the process of being trafficked across the border by criminal sponsors, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said during a press conference Thursday.

Those criminals, working with Mexican drug cartels to move the children across the border, often sponsored multiple migrant children, Blanche continued, which required them to lie to U.S. government officials, claiming they were close relatives of the children being trafficked into the country.

Those individuals, known to federal........

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